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Shawn - June 25th, 2010

Vote for a Cure

We need to take a step back from website design in Tampa today. Friends of ours have an incredible opportunity to receive donations for their cause. To be perfectly blunt, we want to show our support and let you guys know a bit about their chance to be granted $250K by a program sponsored by Chase.

Chase Community Giving is contributing a total of $5 million to worthy causes and is determining the recipients based on community votes.

Two hundred local charities will receive monies to further their causes and create awareness and support research to help people in our neighborhoods and across the world who face challenges we cannot begin to understand. We’re not asking for a donation; we’re asking you to give this cause a shout out with your vote so an extraordinary non-profit organization can be heard. 

Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia refers to a group of inherited disorders that can affect both boys and girls. The problem with this illness is that the child is deficient in an enzyme that the adrenal gland needs to produce two critical hormones: cortisol and aldosterone.

The human body strives to maintain balance and in the absence of something it needs, it will compensate with something else.

In the case of CAH, the body will respond by producing a surplus of the hormone androgen, one of the male sex hormones. The result is that male characteristics will appear either too early in a boy or inappropriately in a girl.

There are forms of CAH that are more severe than others and in the case of newborns, they will experience an actual “adrenal crisis” and develop severe symptoms shortly after birth including:

• Cardiac arrhythmias
• Dehydration
• Electrolyte changes

Approximately 1 in 10,000 to 18,000 children are born with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.

The CARES Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of families and individuals affected by Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia through proactively advancing research for better understanding of CAH, better treatments and a cure; educating the public and healthcare professionals about all forms of CAH; advocating for universal newborn screening; and providing support services and resources vital to the CAH community worldwide.

We are asking for your support by visiting their Facebook page, clicking the “Like” button and just selecting “Vote for This Charity” in the sidebar under Ways That You Can Help This Charity.

It will take a second of your time (you’re probably logged into Facebook right now anyway!) and you’ll be giving this selfless organization a chance to make tremendous strides to help these children and their families.